Janina, who understands the signs of nature, already knows what the weather will be like at Christmas and when true winter will begin.

In the last days of November, the big cities of the country rushed to decorate with symbols of the winter holidays, decorate Christmas trees in the squares, and the end of autumn still reigned in nature: the Dzuks still find vegetables and squirrels In the woods. J. Janušauskienė, who trades forest products in Merkine, along the Vilnius-Druskininkai road, found them just a couple of days ago. But I didn’t want to talk to her about mushroom growth at all, to find out what weather to expect in the winter, if there will be snow at Christmas. After all, Janina, according to the signs of nature, observing the change of trees, the behavior of birds and beasts, predicted quite accurately or just guessed the weather this fall. And he even predicted late germination of the mushrooms in November.

“It should be a little chilly next week, maybe it will snow, but it will be mostly wet in December. The fog that started in November will continue. It’s rare that the fog doesn’t dissipate all day, but this fall is typical.” said J. Janušauskienė.

According to Marcinkoniškės, this winter will not be as warm as last year, we will not avoid short colds or snow.

“The changing weather will continue – it will be an ugly winter, lots of rain. And we will have a colder period, when it will snow and the snow will not melt on the same day, only in January and February,” Janina said.

The woman pointed out that in the gardens of Dzūk, the mice chewed on potatoes and carrots this fall, and the ant hills closed all their openings early and prepared for the cold; this promises to be a cold winter.

When asked about the Christmas weather, Janina said: “It’s hard to say that there may be snow, some snowflakes may fall in the morning, but they will melt during the day. And more rain and drizzle expected. Just as this year’s summer was different from last year, so will winter. It will be very cold, although there will be thaws. “

According to J. Janušauskienė, it is too early to talk about next spring. First you need to see what nature will look like at Christmas and the Three Kings.

A woman born and raised on a single farm in the village of Grybaulia, a family of 11 children, said she had been grazing cows in the forest since she was 3 years old. As a child, he began to observe the signs of nature and learned to understand what they meant. Then he began to take notes when the earth descended after the frost, when the lights bloomed, when the blueberry first, when the anthill woke up. Janina’s father had God’s gift to understand the signs of nature, but she was also endowed with this ability, only she was in no rush to tell all the secrets of nature.